This is a low bar for congratulations. What is Morocco doing to confront Islamic antisemitism? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
What is Morocco doing to combat the ill effects of such teachings? Nothing, of course.
“Morocco to include Holocaust education in schools, MK Oren congratulates,” by Juliane Helmhold, Jerusalem Post, October 5, 2018:
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office MK Michael Oren on Friday welcomed the decision of Morocco’s King Mohammad VI to include Holocaust education into his country’s high school curriculum.
“Morocco’s King Muhammad V (sic) sent a profound moral message to the world. Anti Semitism & Holocaust denial is rising in the West, the leader of a proud Arab country is introducing Holocaust education into Moroccan schools with the goal of fighting anti-Semitism. There is indeed hope,” he wrote on Twitter.
On Wednesday, the Moroccan news website Le Desk reported that King Mohammed VI of Morocco ordered to incorporate Holocaust studies into the educational program.
According to the report, the message was delivered via his Education Minister Said Amzazi in a high-level round table discussion on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Antisemitism is the “antonym of freedom of expression,” the message from the King explained. “It manifests the negation of the other and is an admission of failure, insufficiency and inability to coextist.”
“This is the anachronistic return to a mythical past. Is this the past that we want to leave as a legacy for future generations?” the sovereign questioned.
“For all that, the battle against this plague can not be handled carelessly. [The battle] is fought neither with the military nor with money, it above all depends on education and culture,” he added, explaining that, “This battle has a name: education. And in the interest of our children, it is important for us to win it because they will be the beneficiaries and our ambassadors in the future.”
According to Le Desk, as early as 2008 the need for revision of the religious content of school textbooks to include Morocco’s Jewish history and Holocaust education had been acknowledged, but little had been achieved in practice….
Now, why was that?
Indiana Tom says
I am not up to what is going on in Morocco.
But I consider the real step up in the Muslim world is the covering of the Muslim Turks slaughtering Armenian Christians.
gravenimage says
Unsurprisingly, Indiana Tom, Morocco does not recognize the Armenian Genocide. Most of the Muslim world does not–despite the ongoing oppression and murder of Christians in much of Dar-al-Islam.
Eur says
In continental Europe the vast majority of prisoners for jihadism are Moroccans or children of Moroccans. Morocco is a country that exports criminals, rapists and religious fanatics. The best that Morocco has exported are shopkeepers and harvesters.
StellaSaidSo says
Morocco has a very long Jewish history, dating from the 1st century AD, and the fact that this history is to be included in Moroccan high school curricula is a welcome development. It might be a ‘low bar for congratulations’, but it is a positive step nonetheless.
Diane says
That’s what I thought: It’s a start.
Yes, we realize there are still major problems….but I’d rather see some kind of improvement, like this one, than nothing at all.
Baucent says
I think give credit when credits due. This decision is not going to raise the Kings popularity among muslims and Arabs, so it comes at a cost.
Indiana Tom says
I really do not have a problem with Holocaust coverage, but a lot of other government death programs were really much larger.
At the time of the Ukrainian Holodomor, journalists, diplomats, and other observers on the ground could only guess at the numbers of victims, and estimates varied from 1.5 to over 10 million.
http://holodomorct.org/
Stalin was a gem as well.
https://news.stanford.edu/2010/09/23/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310/
Fun with the Fuhrer in Slavic lands was another strength throuh the joy of killing Slavis peoples.
Indiana Tom says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost
Oops. forgot the link:
Krishna says
Yeah it’s true and I have well researched why holocaust gets more coverage than other genocide and its because of high Jewish influence in media and other reason is Hitler lost the war so Germany completely admites crimes against humanity and can’t deny crimes like Russians do
gravenimage says
Oh, good lord. The Holocaust was the largest organized genocide in human history.
The Holocaust likely would have been taught if Hitler had won–just not as a bad thing.
I actually wish that they other genocides of history were also more widely taught, including the man-made famine in Ukraine under Stalin that Indiana Tom refers to, as well as the similar man-made famine under Mao, the Armenian Genocide, and the Killing Fields in Cambodia.
b.a. freeman says
+1
Charles says
Graven image, “…if Hitler had won..” ? Think Hitler would have if your much-despised Stalin had not destroyed him and “Krupp” ??
Ade Fegan says
Those verses in numerical order .. if it helps
(get in touch Robert if you have “jobs” like this that need doing .. I’d like to help)
2:14 Being hypocritical
2:44 Being hypocritical
2:55 Staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance
2:61 Killing the prophets
2:63-65 Being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath
2:74 Being merciless and heartless
2:79 They fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah
2:87 Giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad
2:100 Never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words
2:109 Wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them
2:247 They are disputing and quarreling
3:75 They fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah
3:78 Hiding the truth and misleading people
3:120 Feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate
3:181 They fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah
4:46 Slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah
4:53 Being miserly
4:161 Devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge
5:13 They disobey Allah and never observe his commands
5:18 Being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people
5:41 They love to listen to lies
5:59-60 Being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath
5:64 They claim that Allah’s power is limited
5:79 Being unrestrained in committing sins
5:82 They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims
7:166 Being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath
9:29 Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony
9:30 They are under Allah’s curse
59:13-14 Being cowardly
(Total 29 references, including three which are covered by two or three consecutive verses)
gravenimage says
Thanks, Ade.
Hector Archytas says
They are terrified by the problem and have good intend. I have been there in 2003. They are nice and friendly but they nearly all believe in the Koran
Hugh Fitzgerald says
it’s unclear if the teaching about the Holocaust will be accompanied by a subject that had apparently been talked about before but is not mentioned by the King or his representative in Geneva: to wit, the history of the Jews in Morocco, a history that predates the arrival of the Arabs bringing Islam.
Will this history course on the Holocaust go into the long history of antisemitism in Western Christendom so so students will understand what prompted the German murders? Will they be exposed to Nazi propaganda? Will they learn of the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el Husseini? Will they learn that Jews who tried to find refuge were not let in, save in a very fe wiited places (the 30,000 let into the Dominican Republic by Trujillo, the Kindertransport to England), and that the British kept them from going to Palestine, in order to placate the Arabs?
Will they be told that even today there are those, such as Mahathir Mohamed, who minimize the Holocaust (Mohamd says “only 4 million died”), utter antisemitic canards (again, Mahathir Mohamed: “Jews rule the world by proxy,” “Jews caused the Asian financial crisis,” “Jews are hook-nosed” etc.
Who knows? Maybe the King will allow a serious course to be given. But the Moroccan should expect a lot of criticism for this unheard-of act of decency. And no doubt the King will be accused of being a Zionist agent, for why else would anyone want to teach about the Holocaust?
gravenimage says
Spot on, Hugh.
gravenimage says
Morocco to include Holocaust education in schools, gets congratulations from Israeli official
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Well, *this* is a surprise.
This is likely due to King Mohammed VI, who is one of the least toxic leaders in the Muslim world.
Whenever things have become temporarily more tolerable in one part or another of the Muslim world, it is almost always due to the personal policies of an individual Muslim potentate, who is often considered “insufficiently Islamic” or even an apostate by his coreligionists. Sadly, more liberal policies seldom outlast the leader–although his grandfather Mohammed V was fairly decent, as well.
But there were murderous riots against Jews in Morocco in 1948 and ’49, and again in the 1950s, and thousands of Jews fled the country. Upon gaining independence in 1962, Morocco barred all non-Muslims from becoming citizens. Most of Morocco’s remaining Jewish population left at that point, mostly for France or Israel. There are fewer than 2,500 Jews surviving in the whole country today–yet they were targeted in the Casablanca attacks in 2003, even though there are no more than a handful of Jews remaining there, mostly elderly.
Still, glad to see this–you have to take what meager hope you can find in the Muslim world. Here is the king’s speech on the subject from 2009:
“Morocco’s King Mohammed VI challenges Muslim world’s Holocaust denial”
https://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2009/07/moroccos_king_mohammed_vi_chal.html
Kepha says
In WWII, Sultan Muhammad V of Morocco refused Vichy and German demands to inventory Jewish property or report which of his subjects were Jewish (there were about 300,000 Jews in Morocco at the time). Enough Moroccan Jews survived WWII for about 250,000 to emigrate to Israel later. There is even a movement to have Muhammad V listed among the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.
A part of the Islamic world willing to put aside the region’s hatred for Israel to admit that the Holocaust was committed is a positive step.
Kepha says
BTW, Michael Oren is one of the 2500 Jews left in Morocco.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
why not introduce the teaching of Palestinian cause and how they are being brutally massacred by fascist evil zionists? To please Jewish slave state the brigand evil United States? The morroccon monarchs must be idiot to the core .It was mithraist christian Nazis who carried out genocide killings of Jews, in return the most wicked and evil people on earth now carrying mass killings of Palestinians. scums of evils!!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
The monarch should also introduce teaching of Palestinian cause and how they are being brutally massacred by fascist evil Zionist State of Israel as part of it’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,otherwise it is idiocy among Arab monarchs. It is mithraist Christian Nazists who carried out genocide killings of Jews, in return the most wicked fascist Zionists turn to Palestinians who never participated in the mass killings of Jews.scums of evils!!
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
why not introduce the teaching of Palestinian cause and how they are being brutally massacred by fascist evil zionists?
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Ibrahim itaced muhammed means that the local Muslims want to finish the job Hitler started.
He does, as well–Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that he wants to personally take part in the genocide of the Jews.
More:
To please Jewish slave state the brigand evil United States? The morroccon monarchs must be idiot to the core .It was mithraist christian Nazis who carried out genocide killings of Jews, in return the most wicked and evil people on earth now carrying mass killings of Palestinians. scums of evils!!
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Of course, Hitler was not Christian, nor was the Holocaust in any way Christian. Adolf certainly did admire Islam, though, and modeled the Holocaust on the Muslim Armenian Genocide against the Christians in Turkey. He sneeringly said, “who now remembers the Armenians?”.
His second post is largely the same as the first. You can always tell when Ibrahim itace muhammed is particularly exercised–as here, with anyone saying anything negative about genocide of the Jews–when he just starts wildly spamming.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage, you love lying too much as you are inspired to do so by Satan god you call Holy Spirit. Nazis were mithraist christians with believe that it was the Jews who reported Jesus to palette and he crucified. Read history
gravenimage says
What claptrap. Hitler said this:
“You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
He also mused that if the Muslims had won at Tours, that the Islamized Germans would have conquered all of Europe, because they would not have been held back by Christian scruples.
Ibrahim itace muhammed’s problem is that I know all too much history.
infidel says
I’m sure that this king of Morocco will now be on the hit-list of these savages..!!!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage, assuming, not conceding, Hitler said that, but all Nazis were devout mithraist christians who carried out genocide killings of Jews for mithraist christ in the same way mithraist christian crusaders killed Muslims ànd Jews. Try again
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Will they include the fact that Muhammadans collaborated with the Nazis?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini
https://youtu.be/gjVUlVWXBm4